Is there a law that supports one Baptism?

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Sursumcorda1 said:
Some non-Catholic baptisms need to be investigated before being accepted into the Catholic Church due to non-uniform practices including Mennonite, Moravian, Pentecostal, and Seventh Day Adventist.

Some non-Catholic Baptism are considered invalid or non-existent such as the Apostolic church, Bohemian Free Thinkers, Christadelphians, Christian Community of Rudolf Steiner, Christian Scientists, Church of Divine Science, Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (Mormons), Church of the Universal Brotherhood (Doukhobors), Jehovah’s Witnesses, Masons, the New Church of Mr. Emmanuel Swedenborg (Church of the New Jerusalem in the USA), People’s Church of Chicago, Reunification Church (Moonies), Salvation Army, Shakers, Quakers, and Unitarians.
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Yes, Masons do baptize. I found this hard to believe too. It is a quasi-religious ceremony but not a Christian one, the Trinitarian formula of baptism is not used. Needless to say, it is utterly invalid.

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Masonic Baptism?!

I received my copy of the Journal of the Masonic Society about two to three weeks ago (yes, I have taken that long to finish this article). ...
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No need; the Church has declared lex orandi, lex credendi - the way (“law”) we pray is the way (“law”) we believe, literally translated as “law of creed”.

If that doesn’t suffice, we can just flag posts that are off-topic and not in keeping with the civility of the forums.
 
See the first historical reference to this belief in the first 6 verses of St. Paul’s Ephesians Chapter 4.
 
Fauken said:
My guess is, and this is only a guess, is that they don’t want conditional baptism to be treated as a “second baptism”.
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We don’t even need to go that far.

Some protestant groups are known to uniformly baptize in a valid manner.

It would be offensive to hold a conditional baptism when the original is known to be valid . . .
 
Pre-VII, it was standard practice to administer conditional baptism.
 
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